Dalai Lama

DHARAMSHALA: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, who is nowadays teaching Buddhism to students, at the Tibetan Children Village School in McLeodganj has asked adolescents to stand together to protect their identity. The Dalai Lama likened ...  

On June 1 the Dalai Lama began three days of teaching to introduce Buddhism to young Tibetans in Dharamsala, India. During his initial lecture the Dalai Lama commented that "religion is just like medicine" as reported upon by Hamsini for The ...  

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama began his 3 day teachings on introductory Buddhism at the Tibetan Children's Village School in Dharamsala today. The 3-day teachings from June 1-3 is being attended by around thousands of Tibetan students from all ...  

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The rise of the Communist Party in China has not been without its problems. Alongside China's enormous wealth is some of the most widespread poverty and homelessness in the world. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed his feelings that ...  

Vienna, May 28 (TruthDive): On Saturday, nearly 10,000 people came to receive the Dalai Lama after Vienna disregarded the warnings given by China that connections with Beijing might be affected by hosting exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.  

(RTTNews) - China objected strongly to a meeting between the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, according to media reports. However, Dalai Lama met ...  

One of the men died. China has branded the self-immolators "terrorists" and criminals and has blamed exiled Tibetans and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for inciting them. At least 35 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since March ...  

"We expect more than 100,000 Tibetan Buddhism devotees to turn out during the ritual," said a spokesman of Xiahe county, Gansu province, home to Labrang Monastery -- one of the six major Gelugpa monasteries in China. "Not just Gansu, people from ...  

Paramahamsa Nithyananda has been named among the world’s 100 Most Spiritually Influential Personalities alongside Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Oprah Winfrey, Paulo Coelho and others This honor is listed in the world’s top esoteric magazine – Mind ...  

CLAUDE ARPI, however, believes that the Tibetans’ resistance to China will only grow — and even turn more aggressive — after the Dalai Lama’s exit In March 2012, reported the Chinese-sponsored Tibet Daily, Hu Jintao encouraged a Tibetan delegation ...  

In an exclusive interview with this week's Sunday Telegraph, the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, revealed he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning that Chinese agents had trained Tibetan women for a mission to poison him while posing as ...  

VIENNA - The Dalai Lama met Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann Saturday, a day after saying he was open to dialogue with China and calling for real autonomy for Tibet. The social democrat Faymann dismissed warnings from Beijing that its ...  

A top Chinese official has cancelled his visit to Britain in reaction to a earlier meeting between British Prime Minister David Cameron and Tibet’s spiritual leader Dalai Lama. Head of China’s parliament, Wu Bangguo was to have travelled to Britain ...  

Returning from a hectic five-nation Europe tour, the 76-year old Tibetan leader was received ... the largest share of the prize to Save the Children, India, an organisation, which is at the forefront of the fight against malnutrition - one of the biggest ...  

DHARAMSHALA, May 26: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama met Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann today in Vienna. Although details of the meeting are not clear, Chancellor Faymann had earlier called the meeting "a clear political signal for ...  

British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet the Dalai Lama ... China voiced "strong dissatisfaction" after Cameron's predecessor as prime minister, Gordon Brown, met the Dalai Lama, also away from Downing St, in 2008. Tibetan protests against Chinese ...  

The government of China has released a documentary through its CCTV global media outlet that claims His Holiness the Dalai Lama is behind the wave of self-immolations in China. About 34 ethnic Tibetans, most of them Buddhist monks and nuns, have set fire to themselves over the past few months to protest Chinese oppression of Tibetan Buddhism....Read Full Post  

The WSJ's Barbara Chai traveled to Dharamsala, India, to meet the Dalai Lama at his private residence, learn about Tibetan Buddhism, and trek the hills in the shadow of the Himalayas. The journey to enlightenment begins with a single step—or ...  

Sunday's self-immolations were the first in Lhasa, marking a worrying development for Chinese authorities who have blamed them on supporters of the Dalai Lama seeking an end to Chinese rule over Tibet. Exiled Tibetans say the self-immolations ...  

Dalai Lama: Tibetans maintain mental strength and keep strong hold on Tibetan identity. The article below is published by The Tibet Post: Arriving early Saturday morning at the Klagenfurt Hall in Salzburg, Austria, His Holiness addressed the ...  

DHARAMSHALA: After threat perception disclosed by the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, security department of the exiled Tibetan government will review security arrangements while the Tibetan cabinet has also called a meeting on Sunday for the same.  

For example, visiting the different temples in Dharamsala, it seemed the number of gods and goddesses just multiplied in Tibetan Buddhism; as if the religion spawned new offspring when it crossed over into Tibet, and the progeny flourished.  

Peace often appears to be an elusive concept in a world which has been torn apart with hostilities. In order to cope with this chaotic world Buddhists continue to look towards His Holiness the Dalai Lama for spiritual guidance. The Dalai Lama ...  

BEIJING: China's top legislator cancelled a visit to Britain in anger over a meeting between British Prime Minister David Cameron and the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, a source said.  

London, May 22 (IANS) The Dalai Lama has met a terminally-ill British girl suffering from brain tumour. Maya Skippen, 11, met the 76-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader after her shoe-shiner father Steven told a client of his daughter’s illness. The customer was from the John Templeton Foundation — a US charity that arranged the Dalai Lama’s [...]  

Tibet's Black Hat Lama-a Buddhist teacher incarnate older than the Dalai Lama-will arrive Friday in Manila for a series of prayers as well as empowerment and dharma or Buddhist teachings. It will be the second visit to the Philippines of His Holiness ...  

That would mark at least the 35th Tibetan self-immolation since March of last year to draw attention to China's restrictions on Buddhism and call for the return from exile of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama ... Dr. Stephen Bernard as he ...  

China's top legislator cancelled a visit to Britain in anger over a meeting between British Prime Minister David Cameron and the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, a source said. Wu Bangguo, the head of China's parliament and nominally number two ...  

Dharamsala/London, May 13 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has spoken of a threat to his life from Chinese agents, saying there were reports that Tibetan women are being trained to harm him. The Dalai Lama's office based in Dharamsala ...  

DHARAMSHALA, May 25: Days after a magnitude-6.0 quake struck northern Italy followed by a magnitude-5.1 aftershock, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama visited the country on a pre-planned tour and offered his condolences to the quake victims.  

China has reacted strongly toward other countries for hosting the Dalai Lama in the past. In 2008, China called off a diplomatic visit to France because Nicholas Sarkozy, then French president, was due to meet the exiled Tibetan symbol.  

“The teachings are primarily aimed at motivating young Tibetans in exile into learning Buddhism at academic level and to instil a deeper understanding of Tibetan Buddhist culture, and its core spiritual values,” organisers of the teachings, the ...  

China's top legislator cancelled a visit to Britain in anger over a meeting between Prime ... The Tibetan leader, who fled his homeland for India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, announced last year that he was giving up his political ...  

Dharamsala, May 31 (IANS) The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) Thursday said a mother of three immolated herself in Tibet to protest Beijing’s “repressive policies” and demand the return of the Dalai Lama to his homeland. A total of 38 people have reportedly killed themselves since 2009. Rikyo, a 36-year-old mother of three, died on the [...]  

DHARAMSHALA, May 19: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is currently in Europe on a five-nation tour, met two of his fellow Nobel Peace Laureates this week in the European cultural city of Maribor. The three Nobel Peace Laureates ...  

China called off a senior leader's visit to Britain after learning that David Cameron planned to meet the Dalai Lama ... met him at St Paul's Cathedral – where the Dalai Lama was receiving the £1.1m Templeton prize – rather than on government premises.  

Zhou said "the lives of ordinary Tibetans were always considered dirt cheap under the Dalai Lama's rule in old Tibet," a reference to the days prior to Chinese military takeover of Tibet in the mid 1950s. Beijing's policy has been that Chinese ...  

His Holiness the Dalai Lama sat down with Arianna Huffington at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London to celebrate his Templeton Prize, and discuss the importance of a productive conversation between spirituality and science. The Dalai Lama's role in fostering positive interactions between religion and science is one of the reasons why he was honored by the prize. As the Templeton Foundation notes: "For decades, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama...  

Buddhists have been praying and working hard to envision a more peaceful world in the midst of increasing violence worldwide. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has added an inspirational force to these initiatives for more peace and harmony on the ...  

Tibetans on meeting the Dalai Lama frequently give him scarves and bow their heads. Rinzin Choedon, coordinator with the Students for a Free Tibet activist group, said Sunday she has no doubt China is capable of such an attack, but said security ...  

BEIJING — China is criticizing British Prime Minister David Cameron for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet’s independence from Chinese rule. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong ...  

As China accuses the Dalai Lama of Nazi policies and the Dalai Lama blames China’s policies for the string of self-immolations,China is now slamming Britain for British Prime Minister David Cameron’s meeting with the Dalai Lama. The Washington Post reports: China criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet’s independence...  

Dharamsala, May 20: Security has been beefed up at the residence and monastery of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama here, following recent confirmed reports of possible threat to his life. - Indiatalkies.com  

A spokesman for the British embassy in Beijing confirmed that Wu Bangguo, China's top legislator, had been planning a protocol visit, but had called it off. The spokesman declined to comment on the reasons for the dropped trip, but diplomatic sources said ...  

Thousands of people attended the Dalai Lama’s public talk on the ‘Art of Happiness’ in Klagenfurt, Austria on Sunday, 20 May 2012. In an interview with VOA Tibetan service, Tseten Samdup, Representative of the Dalai Lama in Geneva, said that the ...  

China is beset by a moral crisis, widespread corruption and lawlessness, leading millions of Chinese to seek solace in Buddhism, Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday. The Dalai Lama was in Lon-don to receive the $1.7 ...  

A senior Chinese leader has cancelled a proposed trip to the UK, a British Embassy spokesman in Beijing has confirmed to the BBC. China's chief legislator Wu Bangguo - officially second ranking in China's hierarchy - is on a tour of Europe. Sources say the ...  

Being reincarnated as a shark is one thing—being eaten by one is another. “Long flights, those I really feared, but now I’m used to them,” Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, revealed in a new profile in The Telegraph. “The fear now is ...  

Thousand of students were moved by the passionate moral insights of the Dalai Lama and Jody Williams and the courage of Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist attorney, as well as the work of organizations which represent millions of ...  

"Agents training Tibetan women to assassinate Lama" Dalai Lama reveals he received reports from inside Tibet He lives within a high security cordon in Dharamsala THE Dalai Lama says he has been told that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women for a mission ...  

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, is to be awarded a $1.7 million prize – then instantly give it away. Tenzin Gyatso, 76, the 14th Dalai Lama, will be presented with the Templeton Prize – the world's largest - at a ...  

China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule.  

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said he was warned last year about an assassination plot against him, according to The Sunday Telegraph and reported by Reuters. The 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner said that he was told Tibetan women trained by Chinese agents may have poison on in their hair and clothing they might approach him saying they were sick and asking for blessings. The Dalai Lama and others are unable to verify the...  

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DHARAMSHALA, India - Chinese agencies are secretly collecting samples of the Dalai Lama's blood, urine and hair and are stepping up efforts to harm him, the Tibetan government in exile said Sunday. Citing "a variety of threats" to the spiritual leader's ...  

Ogyen is the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Karmapa is one of the highest figures in Tibetan Buddhism along with Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. Even as the Dalai Lama keeps cards ...  

BEIJING -- China criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet's independence from Chinese rule. The British government ...  

BEIJING -- China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings.The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the Tibetan spiritual leader's allegations, reported in the London-based Sunday Telegraph newspaper, were not worth refuting, but added that he generally spreads false information.Read More...  

China is criticizing British Prime Minister David Cameron for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet's independence from Chinese rule. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei ...  

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London, May 13 (TruthDive): The Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader, fears the Chinese agents are training fake female devotees in a plot to murder him while getting blessings. On speaking to the journal Sunday Telegraph, he said he received a ...  

Beijing, May 17 : China has reportedly released a documentary that accuses the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans. China Central Television (CCTV) has released the documentary, which features police surveillance footage of ...  

Photo: Lucag (CC) Reports Dean Nelson in the Telegraph: The 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, revealed he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning that Chinese agents had trained Tibetan women for a mission to poison him while posing as devotees seeking his blessings. The Tibetan Buddhist leader said he lives within a high security cordon in his temple palace grounds in Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, on the advice of...  

The 14 th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, on Monday received the annual Templeton Prize at St Paul's Cathedral in London. According to the Templeton Foundation website, the Templeton Prize was established in 1972 by the late Sir John Templeton to ...  

China has accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings. After the Tibetan spiritual leader's allegations were reported in the Sunday Telegraph, the Chinese foreign ministry said the accusation was not worth refuting. It added today that the Dalai Lama generally spreads false...  

China could have eliminated Tibet’s spiritual leader Dalai Lama,76, a long time ago if it so wanted, the state media said on Monday reacting to his claims that bogus women devotees were being trained by China to poison him. The Dalai Lama had ...  

Beijing, May 17: China has reportedly released a documentary that accuses the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans. - Indiatalkies.com  

Britain's ambassador in Beijing, Sebastian Wood, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to receive a rebuke from China's vice foreign minister Song Tao. Mr Song said the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader amounted to serious interference in ...  

Indian authorities have dropped charges against Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader involving $1.35 million in cash discovered at his monastery in northern India.Police had seized the money - found in some two dozen currencies including a large sum of Chinese yuan - from the Karmapa's headquarters outside Dharmsala, where the Dalai Lama and Tibetan government-in-exile are based.On a recommendation from prosecutors, however, a...  

BEIJING (AP) — China has accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings.The Tibetan spiritual leader's allegations were reported in the London-based Sunday Telegraph. The Chinese Foreign Ministry says the accusation is not worth refuting, but it added Monday that the Dalai Lama generally...  

China denied allegations Monday by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, that it was plotting to assassinate him using poison and trained female agents posing as Buddhist pilgrims.  

VIENNA, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Shi Mingde, the Chinese ambassador to Austria, said Monday that "all relations" Austrian politicians have with the Dalai Lama are "not helpful for good relations between Austria and China." Austria should not provide room for the ...  

DHARAMSALA, India -- One young Tibetan monk walked down a street kicking Chinese military vehicles, then left a suicide note condemning an official ban on a religious ceremony. Another smiled often, and preferred to talk about Buddhism rather than politics.  

Not a day has passed for years without reports of repression under Chinese rule by Tibetans. And now China has gone on the offensive against the Dalai Lama for allegedly not caring about the loss of human lives in Tibet. Buddhists in Syracuse ...  

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has commenced an 11-day tour of Austria, where he will meet with Austrian religious figures, as well as participate in a peaceful demonstration for Tibetan rights in Vienna’s main square. Below is an article ...  

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the Tibetan spiritual leader's allegations, reported in the London-based Sunday Telegraph newspaper, were not worth refuting, but added that he generally spreads false information. "The Dalai always wears ...  

Back in 1962 Robert Thurman became the first American ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He left the monastery but has continued to spread Buddhism's word. Tonight he's in Vancouver to talk about his relationship with the Dalai Lama.  

Our take: The Dalai Lama was in London recently to receive a Templeton Prize for supporting positive interactions between religion and science. While there, he gave a lengthy interview on compassion, a foundational element of the Buddhist faith ...  

“Chinese intelligence agencies have stepped up their clandestine efforts to collect intelligence on the status of His Holiness’s health, as well as collecting physical samples of his blood ... seek blessing from me, and my hand touch,” he said.  

Sydney Morning HeraldChina may use dissident sect against Dalai Lama: TibetTimes of IndiaDHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan government-in-exile on Monday pointed its finger towards a splinter community among Tibetans - the around 5000-strong Dorje Shugden community - after the Dalai Lama had raised an alarm on Sunday over threat to his life.Assassination plot: Dalai Lama's charge groundless, says ChinaIndian ExpressDalai Lama warns against 'hopelessness...  

China has accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings. After the Tibetan spiritual leader ...  

Violent or non-violent? Questions have been raised on the very form of these protests. Isn't setting oneself on fire a violent action - something unacceptable in Tibetan Buddhism, which strictly advocates non-violence? Self-immolations in Tibet ...  

DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamshala on Sunday claimed that China is gathering intelligence on the Dalai Lama's health and secretly trying to procure his blood, hair and urine samples. The spiritual leader had recently ...  

The Dalai Lama recipient of the 2012 Templeton Prize announced May 14 at the awards ceremony at St Paulamprsquos Cathedral in London that he would give 15 million of his prize money to Save the Children India to mitigate malnourishment  

there are a variety of threats to his well-being that the security agencies are obliged to take it seriously. "According to reports received from Tibet in June 2010, Chinese intelligence agencies are making concrete plans to harm His Holiness by employing ...  

London, May 13 (PTI) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that Chinese agents have trained bogus female devotees to kill him with poison while seeking blessings. The 76-year-old Dalai Lama, who lives under tight security in Dharamsala in India ...  

NEW DELHI -- Indian authorities have dropped charges against Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader involving $1.35 million in cash discovered at his monastery in northern India.Police had seized the money – found in some two dozen currencies including a large sum of Chinese yuan – from the Karmapa's headquarters outside Dharmsala, where the Dalai Lama and Tibetan government-in-exile are based.Read More... More on Video...  

His Buddhisticular Holiness has spoken. Yea, and indeed lo, yonder Dalai Lama has been shooting his mouth off again, this time about last summer's riots in Englandshire. Although he's a religious man, the Dalai sometimes has lucid intervals, and on this ...  

China has accused the Dalai Lama of spreading "false information" after he revealed to The Telegraph that Chinese agents had hatched a plot to poison him. The Tibetan spiritual leader, who is in London today to collect the £1.1 million Templeton Prize at ...  

LONDON (Reuters) - Tibet's Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, fears China may have plotted to kill him by training female agents with poison in their hair and on their clothing, he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper. China has ruled Tibet since 1950, and the Chinese government has repeatedly accused exiled Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, of stoking dissent against its rule. The spiritual leader fled to India in 1959 after a failed...  

The Chinese government has denied the Dalai Lama's allegation that its agents were planning to poison the Buddhist monk. Beijing says the exiled Tibetan leader is 'spreading false information' and 'deceiving the world.'  

China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings.The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the Tibetan spiritual leader's allegations, reported in the London-based Sunday Telegraph newspaper, were not worth refuting, but added that he generally spreads false information."The Dalai always...  

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that Chinese agents have trained Tibetan women to poison him while posing as devotees.  

David Cameron's decision to meet the Dalai Lama has provoked an angry response from the Chinese government. The prime minister met the Tibetan spiritual leader in London on Monday. China's foreign ministry said the meeting "seriously interfered ...  

Threats to the Dalai Lama's life are being taken seriously by security agencies and steps are being taken to foil any possible attempt on his life,including through "drugs and poisonous chemicals", Tibetan-government-in -exile said today. In a statement ...  

China has ruled Tibet since 1950, and the Chinese government has repeatedly accused exiled Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, of stoking dissent against its rule. LONDON: Tibet's Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, fears China may have plotted to ...  

China on Tuesday took strong exception to British Prime Minister David Cameron's meeting with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama while London defended the "private get together", ...  

His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama is on Facebook, and you can follow @DalaiLama on Twitter. "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama "Only the development of ...  

The British government ignored Beijing's objections in going ahead with Monday's meeting in London, and doing so "hurts the feelings of the Chinese people," meddles in China's affairs and harms Chinese-British relations, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.  

China gave the British ambassador in Beijing a dressing down today after British Prime Minister David Cameron met with the Dalai Lama in London. Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao told Sebastian Wood that British leaders had “hurt the feelings of the Chinese ...  

China is beset by a moral crisis, widespread corruption and lawlessness, leading millions of Chinese to seek solace in Buddhism, Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday.  

The Dalai Lama will honour an inspirational young person in Greater Manchester. The Buddhist leader will visit the city next month and wants to find the region’s most inspirational young person. The Dalai Lama, who will visit on June 16 to 18, is looking ...  

After the Dalai Lama accused China of trying to poison him, the Chinese government rebutted his claims and said that if it wanted the Tibetan spiritual leader dead, it could have done so without waiting until he was 76 years old. The Dalai Lama told the Sunday Telegraph that he believed the Chinese government had trained women to put poison in their hair and scarves for him to touch when he blessed them. The newspaper said that he and his...  

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will receive the prestigious 1.1 million pound Templeton Prize here tomorrow for his contribution in encouraging common ground between science and religion. The 76-year-old Dalai Lama will also announce how he is to ...  

Visiting Baltimore to promote "universal peace and compassion," Geshe Nawang Tsondy, a Tibetan monk of the Dalai Lama's Drepung lineage, quickly endeared himself to students at Roland Park Country School on Friday . "I wish you all the best on ...  

Dalai Lama accused China of trying to poison him, the Chinese government rebutted his claims and said that if it wanted the Tibetan spiritual leader dead, it could have done so without waiting until ...  

The Dalai Lama has said that last summer's riots were the fault of a generation brought up to believe life would be easy. Speaking in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral on Monday, where he was presented with the £1.1m Templeton prize for ...  

The Dalai Lama was to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday during a visit to London ... reviews of the power of compassion," organisers said. The Buddhist monk, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will donate $1.5 million of the prize to Save ...  

London, May 15 : Tibetan Spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has said that he was shocked by last year's riots in the United Kingdom as he considered Britons to be 'mature, sensible and law-abiding'. 'I always had the view Englishmen were mature people ...  

A small quote received some attention last week because it combined several components that are most frequently reserved for a film plot starring Helen Mirren, Matt Damon and Damon’s snug black shirt. The components are as follows: mysterious women, assassination plots, secret agents and the spiritual leader of Tibet. Read full article >>  

The Dalai Lama will receive the 2012 Templeton Prize, one of the world's biggest monetary awards, in a ceremony at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London on May 14, organisers said Wednesday. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader will receive the £1.1 million ($1 ...  

NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama has revealed his fears after being warned that Chinese agents have hatched a plot to kill him. The 76-year-old Nobel peace prize winner revealed he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning that Chinese agents had trained ...  

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says he wrote to Britain’s Prime Minister to offer condolences in the wake of England’s riots last August.Speaking at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on ...  

The Dalai Lama refused to answer a question Monday about whether Tibetan monks should stop setting themselves on fire to protest China's occupation of Tibet. "No answer," he said. "I think that this is quite a sensitive political issue," the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhist community said. Self-immolation is becoming an increasingly common form of protest for Tibetans who want genuine autonomy from China and accuse Beijing of...  

The Dalai Lama, a former Nobel Peace Prize winner, joins Mother Teresa, American evangelist Billy Graham and former Nixon adviser ... got the surprise of a lifetime when Dr. Mehmet Oz showed up to give their lunch a lmakeover. "You see him on TV, and ...  

Beijing, May 14 (IANS) A state-run Chinese daily Monday dismissed Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s claim that China was trying to poison him to death using female devotees, and described his accusation as “something you would find in a martial arts novel”. Global Times Monday ran an article “Dalai assassination claims mind-boggling” after [...]  

London, May 14 (PTI) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today received the prestigious 1.1 million pound Templeton Prize here and announced that most of the prize money will go to ''Save the Children'' fund in India. Speaking at the St Paul''s ...  

The Dalai Lama – one of world’s most famous religious leaders - is looking for a young representative in Greater Manchester. The Buddhist leader will visit the city next month wants to find for the region’s most inspirational young person.  

In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the Dalai Lama speaks about poison plots against him by the Chinese and his friendship with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.  

CTV.caDalai Lama meets with PM Harper, gives speechCTV.caThe Dalai Lama speaks at the 6th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet in Ottawa on Friday April 27, 2012. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS) Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Friday, April 27, 2012.Dalai Lama praises Harper's balancing act on Tibetan rights, Chinese tradeGlobe and MailDalai Lama thanks Harper for visitCBC.caDalai Lama commends...  

BEIJING — China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule. The documentary shown ...  

OTTAWA - The Dalai Lama is praising Prime Minister Stephen Harper for balancing human rights with the need to further economic ties with China. The Tibetan spiritual leader came to Ottawa to attend a convention of world parliamentarians on Tibet.  

BEIJING - China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule. The ...  

The documentary shown globally by state broadcaster China Central Television features police surveillance ... Arabic and Russian channels twice earlier this month as well as on CCTV-4, the international Chinese language station.  

London: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today received the prestigious 1.1 million pound Templeton Prize and announced that most of the prize money will go to 'Save the Children' fund in India. Speaking at the St Paul's Cathedral where ...  

The pair held a private meeting during the Dalai Lama's visit to London to receive the £1.1-million ($1.8-million, 1.4-million-euro) Templeton Prize for spiritual leadership. During his 11-day trip to Austria, the Nobel ... since 2008, when deadly rioting ...  

The Dalai Lama will donate his £1.1 million fund from his Templeton Prize award to charity, with Save the Children benefitting the most.It will receive almost £900,000, with The Minds and Life Institute being given £125,000. A slice of money will also be handed to a subsidy which educated Tibetan monks about science. The Dalai Lama is in London to receive his Templeton Prize (Getty Images) The Tibetan Buddhist leader is picking...  

Toronto: The Tibetans are not seeking outright independence from China but “enough autonomy” for the survival of their culture, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has said. “Tibetans are seeking enough autonomy for Tibet to allow its culture to ...  

The Dalai Lama has revealed he fears Chinese agents have trained bogus female devotees to kill him with poison while seeking blessings.The Tibetan Buddhist leader told the Sunday Telegraph that he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning of the plot, using Tibetan women.The 76-year-old Nobel laureate said he now lives in a high security cordon in his temple palace grounds in Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, on the advice of...  

China has accused the Dalai Lama of "deceiving the world" and "spreading false information" after Tibet's exiled spiritual leader said he was warned of a plot by Chinese agents to assassinate him. The Buddhist monk made the allegation in an ...  

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The Dalai Lama has openly refused to condemn the act of lamas in China's Tibetan areas setting themselves ... that has been wrongly painted as rosy, and for an idol who has used them just to achieve his personal goals.  

The Dalai Lama and the late Mother Theresa are the only people in history who won both the Nobel Peace Prize and Templeton Prize. A small portion of the money will also go towards a fund to educate young Tibetan monks about science.  

To find the peace of mind that alone can replace this aimless search which has led to an epidemic of stress, anxiety and drugs - legal and illegal - the Dalai Lama is looking to science (specifically neuroscience) to convince a skeptical ...  

THE Dalai Lama has revealed he has been passed reports from inside Tibet warning that Chinese agents had trained Tibetan women for a mission to poison him while posing as devotees seeking his blessings. The 76-year-old Tibetan Buddhist leader said he lives ...  

Indeed, in his recommendation to the Prize committee, Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote, “More than any other living human being, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has served ...  

Was the plot to poison the Dalai Lama real? How successful are contact-poison assassinations likely to be? Find out on Elemental, the newest addition to the Wired Science Blogs network, where Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Deborah Blum will be investigating chemistry, poisons and the myths and mysteries that surround them.  

The Dalai Lama is voicing concerns the Chinese are plotting his assassination. In an exclusive interview with Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, the Dalai Lama shared details he says come directly from sources inside Tibet on how the Chinese would kill him. Based on this information, he...  

The women, carrying poison on their scarves or on their hair, would seek his blessing, and he would be poisoned when he touches them, he explained. China has dismissed the Lama's poison story as "groundless," the BBC reports. "His sensational ...  

AFPDalai Lama collects $1.8 mn prize after meeting CameronAFPLONDON — Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama met British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday during a visit to London to receive one of the world's richest prizes, a government spokesman said. The meeting at 10 Downing Street with Cameron ...Dalai Lama awarded Templeton PrizeThe HinduDalai Lama's sadness when the 'mature, sensible and law-abiding' English...  

The Dalai Lama says he has been told that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women for a mission to kill him. In an excerpt of the interview with The (London) Sunday Telegraph, the 76-year-old Tibetan Buddhist leader said the women were to pose as ...  

China's Foreign Ministry has voiced "strong dissatisfaction" over the awarding of the $1.7 million Templeton Prize to the Dalai Lama at St Paul's Cathedral in London. It has also summoned the British ambassador Sebastian Wood to protest the meeting between UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the Dalai Lama. [ more › ]  

Last year, he was warned that Chinese agents had trained women to kill him using poison-laced scarves. So it would be understandable if his greatest fear would be being assassinated. But no, that's not the Dalai Lama's greatest fear. Here's the Dalai Lama's greatest fear: His great fear, though, is of flying and of sharks. [...]  

The Dalai Lama received the 2012 Templeton Prize for his work linking science and wider questions of faith and religion. The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader was awarded the prize, which comes with $1.7 million, Monday at St. Paul’s Cathedral ...  

Brisbane TimesDalai Lama: national serviceThe GuardianThe Chinese occupation of Tibet has been the most successful colonisation in the last 60 years. At a time when the old empires were everywhere in retreat, the Chinese army seized Tibet and held it. The occupiers are confident of their manifest destiny ...Dalai Lama feared poisoned hair plotCANOEDalai Lama: What do I really fear? Being eaten by sharksTelegraph.co.ukDalai Lama talks of...  

Ahead of his visit to St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow to receive the £1.1 million Templeton Prize for contributions to advancing the world's understanding of spirituality, the Dalai Lama spoke exclusively to the Sunday Telegraph in Dharamsala about China, his temperament, close friendships and his extreme daily routine.  

OTTAWA — Hollywood actor and Tibetan Buddhist activist Richard Gere is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to meet the Dalai Lama in public. Harper was to welcome the controversial and popular exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to his Parliament Hill ...  

“It has also seriously damaged the relations between China and the U.K ... “We do not want to see our relationship with China disrupted by the visit of the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama travels all over the world and has visited the U.K ...  

DHARAMSALA, India, May 12 (UPI) -- The Dalai Lama said he has received reports from inside Tibet warning Chinese agents have trained Tibetan women for a mission to poison him. In an exclusive interview with Britain's Sunday Telegraph ...  

Tibetan's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama warns the British people against feeling "hopeless" and "helpless" in the face of economic difficulties.Related StoriesChinese government calls Dalai Lama a liar  

Snip from a Globe and Mail article quoting HH the Dalai Lama: “It is quite strange – as non-believers, totally non-believers, atheists – showing interest about reincarnation. I jokingly tell them: In order to be involved in my reincarnation, firstly, they should accept Buddhism. Or religion. Or Buddhism. Then they should recognize Chairman Mao Zedong’s [...]  

Kesang Takla, Foreign Minister for the exiled Tibetan government explains to AsiaNews that the Buddhist leaders’ statement was misinterpreted. The Dalai Lama may step down from temporal power, but not spiritual leadership, in exchange for democratic ...  

The Dalai Lama on Monday announced that he will donate $1.5 million in prize money being awards to him to charity. The prize money is being awarded to the Dalai Lama as part of the annual Templeton Prize in London. The award is given for ...  

China is beset by a moral crisis, widespread corruption and lawlessness, leading millions of Chinese to seek solace in Buddhism, Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday. The Dalai Lama was in London to receive the $1.7 ...  

THE Dalai Lama was awarded a US-born philanthropist's prize for "exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension" today - and immediately donated the $US1.77 million prize money to charity.  

The Dalai Lama lives in a secure area in his temple palace grounds in Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills of India where his government-in-exile in ... County Sheriff's Office has hosted a seized vehicle auction but so far it's been the one with the ...  

Britain has claimed that Prime Minister David Cameron's meeting with the Dalai Lama was a private one and that Cameron was free to meet anyone. But one is the British Prime Minister, the other ...  

"Some Chinese agents training some Tibetans, especially women, you see, using poison - the hair poisoned, the scarf poisoned - they were supposed to seek blessing from me, and my hand touch." The Tibetan Buddhist leader, who has been in exile in ...  

Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama will receive a global prize that honours people who "affirm life's spiritual dimension".Related Stories'Iran explosives chamber' drawingGreek coalition teeters on brinkHeadless bodies dumped on highwayYahoo's 'bogus degree' boss quitsTroops shot by Afghan to be named  

China is beset by a moral crisis, widespread corruption, and lawlessness, leading millions of Chinese to seek solace in Buddhism, Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, said.  

Buddhist religious leader Dalai Lama donated Rs seventy nine lakh to Himalayan Buddhist Society for construction of Buddhist hostel at Gulabgarh, Padder. President of the society, Jigmit Narboo, whereas confirming the donation given by Dalai Lama said that while not the support of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and MLA Kishtwar Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo the visit of Dalai Lama to Padder wasn't attainable. He said when the development of...  

David Cameron's efforts to woo Chinese business backfired yesterday, as Beijing accused the Prime Minister of "hurting its feelings" and "damaging relations" by meeting the Dalai Lama.  

China is beset by a moral crisis, widespread corruption and lawlessness, leading millions of Chinese to seek solace in Buddhism, Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday. The Dalai Lama was in London to receive the $1.7 million ...  

IBNLive.comChina Rubbishes Dalai Lama Death PlotWall Street Journal (blog)Tibet's spiritual leader told Britain's Sunday Telegraph that sources inside China's Tibetan regions had told his entourage that fake female devotees might be coming to try to kill him with poisoned scarves and poisoned hair.China rejects Dalai Lama's 'poison' claimsIBNLive.comDalai Lama alleges poison plot; China cries foulSan Francisco ChronicleChina could have killed...  

"The Dalai always wears religious clothes while carrying out anti-China separatist activities in the global community, spreading false information and deceiving ... that the Chinese government was training female Tibetan agents to put poison ...  

The Dalai Lama met with British Prime Minister David Cameron Monday, before receiving a 1.1 million pound ($1.8 million) prize honouring his efforts to encourage "serious scientific investigative reviews of the power of compassion". He said he would donate ...  

Dalai Lama thought English "law abiding" before the riotsTelegraph.co.ukThe Dalai Lama has told of his shock and amazement at last summer's riots – saying he had always thought the English were “sensible, law-abiding” people. By John Bingham, Religious Affairs Editor Speaking just before he met David Cameron and Nick Clegg ...and more »  

Buddhist leader believes Chinese agents may have trained fake female followers to kill him when seeking blessingsThe Dalai Lama has revealed he fears Chinese agents have trained bogus female devotees to kill him with poison while seeking blessings. The Tibetan Buddhist leader told the Sunday Telegraph that he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning of the plot, using Tibetan women. The 76-year-old Nobel laureate said he now lives in...  

Over the years, the Tibetan leader has paid regular visits to the alpine country, including to see his late friend the Austrian alpinist Heinrich Harrer, whose autobiography inspired the 1999 film "Seven Years in Tibet" with Brad Pitt.  

Tibetan religious leader the Dalai Lama has contributed around one million pounds (approx $1.6 million), part of the Templeton Award prize money, to an NGO for fighting children's malnutrition, a statement said Tuesday. The donation to NGO Save the...  

"So," said the Dalai Lama as he cocked his head from side to side, "So, perhaps something from Buddhism can help you. In Buddhism we believe that the Buddha is within every being, always, whether you can see he is there or not. So you can look ...  

International peace icon Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, returned to Long Beach to deliver a public address at the Long Beach Arena on April 21. Titled “Peace of Mind in Troubled Times,” the speech covered how to cultivate generosity, humility, and equanimity– universal themes that have made him one of the world’s most beloved [...]  

BEIJING, 15 MAY: China today took strong exception to British Prime Minister David Cameron's meeting with the Dalai Lama and lodged diplomatic protests accusing UK of interfering in its internal affairs by playing up the Tibet issue. China has lodged ...  

Given that he has spent much of the past six decades preaching against the follies of material wealth it was perhaps only natural that the Dalai Lama today gave away the single largest annual monetary award given to an individual.Related StoriesA head start in BuddhismPlane with 21 on board crashes in northern NepalPlane crash in northern Nepal kills 15China rejects Dalai Lama assassinate plot claimDissident Chen Guangcheng fears for nephew...  

The Dalai Lama during a ceremony in St Paul's Cathedral, London, where he received the 2012 Templeton Prize. Photo: Lewis Whyld/PA Wire Today's English language edition of The Global Times, a State run newspaper, carries an article calling for ...  

Beijing: China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful on Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him ...  

Outside the Dalai Lama’s temple complex in Dharamsala, hundreds of young monks in crimson robes are locked in animated verbal combat. Against a Himalayan backdrop of jagged white peaks and a bright iris sky, the next generation are holding a debate ...  

Tibet’s Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, fears China may have plotted to kill him by training female agents with poison in their hair and on their clothing, he told Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper.  

Tibet's Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, fears China may have plotted to kill him by training female agents with poison in their hair and on their clothing, he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper.  

The spiritual leader speaks of Chinese women agents who have tried to poison him. The communist government denies it: "We would not have waited so long, if we had wanted to kill him." A source tells AsiaNews: "We continue to pray for his long life and success of his mission."  

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao summoned the British ambassador in Beijing on Tuesday to protest British Prime Minister David Cameron's meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying the meeting "seriously interfered" with China's internal ...  

Britain said Tuesday that Prime Minister David Cameron is free to meet with anyone he chooses, after China said the premier's meeting with the Dalai Lama was an "affront to the Chinese people". China said it had launched "solemn representations" with ...  

China today took strong exception to British Prime Minister David Cameron's meeting with the Dalai Lama and lodged diplomatic protests accusing UK of interfering in its internal affairs by playing up the Tibet issue. China has lodged solemn representations ...  

BEIJING -- China on Monday trashed claims it trained fake female devotees to assassinate the Dalai Lama. At a regular news briefing, a Chinese government spokesman called them "sensational allegations" and "groundless remarks" that were "not even worth ...  

The Dalai Lama met David Cameron and Nick Clegg at St Paul's Cathedral this week, as the leader picked up the Templeton Prize, which promotes religious understanding. During the ceremony, the exiled leader described China, which rules Tibet, as a country ...  

US Representative Chris Smith, center, and ChinaAid president Bob Fu, left, listen to blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng on the telephone as Representative Ann Marie Buerkle, second left, Mei Shunping, second right, and Founder of All Girls ...  

London (CNN)-- The Dalai Lama refused to answer a question Monday about whether Tibetan monks should stop setting themselves on fire to protest China's occupation of Tibet. "No answer," he said, saying it was a sensitive political question and ...  

An editorial in the official Xinhua news agency called the Monday meeting a “dark moment ... in going ahead with the meeting despite Chinese objections. “The UK ignored China's strong opposition, insisting on arranging for its Prime Minister ...  

New Delhi, India: May 15, 2012 – MIL/GBA –Satish Kumar Yadav seeks short interview of Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist and Founder of “FAITH”, Universal Modern Religion, on the apprehension of death by Dalai Lama at the hands of Chinese Govt.  

China has warned David Cameron and Nick Clegg of ‘serious consequences’ for Britain after they had a private meeting with the Dalai Lama in London. Britain’s ambassador in Beijing, Sebastian Wood, was summoned to the foreign ministry to receive a ...  

(NewsCore) - LONDON -- The Dalai Lama was awarded a US-born philanthropist's prize for "exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension" Monday -- and immediately donated the $1.77 million prize money to charity. The Templeton ...  

LONDON (CNN) -- The Dalai Lama refused to answer a question Monday about whether Tibetan monks should stop setting themselves on fire to protest China's occupation of Tibet. "No answer," he said. "I think that this is quite a sensitive political ...  

Foundation president Dr John Templeton said: "With an increasing reliance on technological advances to solve the world's problems, humanity also seeks the reassurance that only a spiritual quest can answer. "The Dalai Lama offers a universal voice of ...  

It's a big news day for the Dalai Lama, from the dangerous to the charitable. He will today be awarded $1.5 million for his services to human spirituality, and he's giving away all of the winnings. He'll donate some $1.45 million to India's Save the Children and more...  

(AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File) The Dalai Lama told The Sunday ... He's usually surrounded by crowds of followers when he travels outside of the northern Indian town of Dharmsala, where he lives. The Global Times, an English-language, state-owned Chinese ...  

OTTAWA - The Dalai Lama on Saturday commended Prime Minister Stephen Harper for holding a private meeting with him one day earlier despite regular pressure from China on world leaders not to associate with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. "He had the ...  

Toronto StarDalai Lama praises Harper in Ottawa speechToronto StarCanadian Press OTTAWA—The Dalai Lama has praised Prime Minister Stephen Harper for balancing Canadian values such as human rights with the need to further economic ties with China. “I think he managed it very well, keep close relation with China, ...Dalai Lama thanks Stephen Harper for meetingNanaimo Daily NewsDalai Lama praises Harper's balancing act on Tibetan rights, Chinese...  

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader praised Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for balancing the human rights of Tibetans with a growing trade relationship with the booming economy of China. "I think he managed it very well, keep close relation with ...  

London, May 14 (PTI) A "shocked" Dalai Lama has written to Prime Minister David Cameron and expressed sadness over the massive riots in London and other towns across Britain last year. "I have the idea of Englishmen as mature, sensible, law-abiding people ...  

The Dalai Lama on Saturday commended Prime Minister Stephen Harper for holding a private meeting with him one day earlier despite regular pressure from China on world leaders not to associate with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.